PDF Properties
Using a custom set of XML tags inside your HTML, you can insert both custom metadata as well as instructions for how the PDF would be viewed in a PDF viewer application (subject of course to that application supporting those features).
Options
You use the (optional) tag <pdfproperties> and within that tag you
can insert <metainfo> and <pdfpreferences>
sections as shown in the instructions below. Within the
<metainfo> tag, you can add <prop> tags
with @name, @value attribute pairs with the data you wish
to store in the PDF metadata. Anything without one of the recognized, standard PDF
names (author, title, subject,
creator, keywords) are stored in custom metadata in
the PDF.
The <pdfpreferences> section allows you to insert one or more
<pref> tags with specific @name,
@value pairs that control the way the resulting PDF is displayed
with a viewer that supports standard PDF view attributes. The support
name, @value pairs are listed below and grouped into
all the available categories:
General PDF Options
These options let you control some general information about the generated PDF.
bookmarks - sets whether PDF bookmarks are generated or not. The default
is "false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want
bookmarks in PDF. Note that bookmarks are only generated for interpreted
hierarchical information. All h1 elements and there following
h2 elements and so on. Skipping levels will break the sequence and
the bookmarks will not be correct.
pdf-version - sets the PDF version number. The default is version 1.5
for Cloudformatter but you set @value to values like "1.3", "1.4",
"1.6" or "1.7" if you wish to change the version. Be aware thar some other features
could be disabled by setting the version too low.
compress - sets whether the PDF is compressed or not. The default is
"true" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "false" if you want
uncompressed PDF.
linearize - sets whether the PDF is linearized or not. The default is
"false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want to
optimize a long PDF for web view.
PDF View Options
These options let you control how the PDF when opened appears to the end user.
view-mode - Choose from one of the following:
auto- If there are bookmarks in the document, the bookmarks pane is displayed. Otherwise, all auxiliary panes are hidden.show-none- All auxiliary panes are hidden.show-bookmarks- The bookmarks pane is displayed.show-thumbnails- The thumbnails pane is displayed.full-screen- The document is displayed in full screen-mode.
initial-zoom - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Page scaling is not specified.fit- The page is scaled to fit completely into the view port.fit-width- The page is scaled so that its width matches the width of the view port.fit-height- The page is scaled so that its height matches the height of the view port.###or####%- The page is scaled by the number or percentage specified.
page-layout - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Uses settings of viewer application.single-page- Displays one page at a time.continuous- Displays pages continuously in one column.two-columns-left- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-columns-right- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the right.two-pages-left- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-pages-right- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the right.
viewer-preferences - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
hide-toolbar- Hides the viewer application's tool bars when the document is active.hide-menubar- Hides the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active.hide-window-ui- Hides user interface elements in the document's window (such as scroll bars and navigation controls), leaving only the document's contents displayed.fit-window- Resizes the document's window to fit the size of the first displayed page.center-window- Positions the document's window in the center of the screen.display-document-title- Controls whether the window's title bar displays the document title taken from the "title" metadata field.
PDF Security
These options allow you to specify owner and user security in the PDF output. User-level security can inject a password to be used to open the PDF, while owner-level security can control what can be done with the PDF (like printing it or copying the data from it).
userpassword - Sets the user password that must be entered to view the
PDF. There are no options, the @value passed is the password to be
used.
ownerpassword - Sets the owner password that must be entered to enable
advanced processing of the PDF. There are no options, the @value passed
is the password to be used. An ownerpassword is used to lock down certain privledges
that an owner will grant to a recipient of the PDF. Without the owner password,
recipients can be restricted from certain things. By default they are restricted
from everything, and you can then specify what additional things you allow by using
userpriviledges.
userpriviledges - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
print- Enables printing the document.modify- Enables editing the document.copy- Enables copying text and images from the document to the clipboard.annotate- Enables adding notations to the document and changing the field values.
PDF Pre-Press Options
These allow you to specify crop marks, bleeds and registration marks to be applied to the PDF.
crop-offset - specify offsets from the meaningful content on the page to
the edges of the physical media (/MediaBox entry in the PDF page dictionary). Its
value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from the edges of the
page area to the corresponding edges of the /MediaBox. Rules for expanding the value
are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
bleed - specify the bleeds — an extra space around the page area into
which the contents of the page may protrude (/BleedBox entry in the PDF page
dictionary). Its value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from
the edges of the page area to the corresponding edges of the /BleedBox. Rules for
expanding the value are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
crop-mark-width - defines line width for the crop marks, setting it to 0
disables drawing of crop marks.
bleed-mark-width - defines line width for the bleed marks, setting it to
0 disables drawing of bleed marks.
printer-mark - specify additional SVG images to be drawn in the offset
area surrounding the page (specified by crop-offset and bleed parameters). Printer
marks are clipped to the outside of the bleed rectangle. The @value is
a URL to an SVG you have. This sample has two URLs (one for a colorbar and one for a
registration mark) you can also use if you like.
The following code is what is behind this page for producing the PDF. Of course, you would only see the things supported by your PDF viewer you use. If you wish to see them all in action, then use "download" and Adobe Reader to view the PDF.
Recent changes in some browsers will not treat this XML as XML. Instead it tries (incorrectly) to not close tags. For best results, be sure to use open and close tags and not a self-closing tag.
<pdfproperties style="display:none;">
<metainfo>
<prop name="author" value="Xportability LLC"></prop>
<prop name="title"
value="Xportability Cloudformatter: Showing Custom
PDF Properties"></prop>
<prop name="subject" value="A Cloudformatter Document"></prop>
<prop name="creator" value="css2pdf@cloudformatter.com"></prop>
<prop name="keywords" value="CSS, PDF, Cloudformatter"></prop>
<prop name="custom1" value="value1"></prop>
<prop name="custom2" value="value2"></prop>
<prop name="custom3" value="value3"></prop>
<prop name="custom4" value="value4"></prop>
</metainfo>
<pdfpreferences>
<pref name="bookmarks" value="true"></pref>
<pref name="pdf-version" value="1.6"></pref>
<pref name="view-mode" value="auto"></pref>
<pref name="initial-zoom" value="fit-height"></pref>
<pref name="page-layout" value="two-columns-left"></pref>
<pref name="viewer-preferences" value="display-document-title"></pref>
<pref name="crop-offset" value="0.5in"></pref>
<pref name="crop-mark-width" value="1px"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/registration.svg"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/colorbar.svg"></pref>
</pdfpreferences>
</pdfproperties>
Sample Output H2
Duo accumsan at nulla dolore tincidunt at voluptua et et. Amet velit sea et et no amet justo ad labore. Sit sed nonumy ut et nulla tempor vulputate consectetuer et sed. Ut justo dolor lorem iusto dolore tempor. Accusam nihil feugiat magna eu voluptua aliquyam et duis ut laoreet clita duo.
Minim assum amet exerci minim eirmod erat ea et ullamcorper sea. Sit eum est stet invidunt. Elitr wisi volutpat duo labore dolore diam nobis iusto sed luptatum ad nonumy. Esse sed et illum hendrerit iriure ea dolor elitr dolore. Ea accusam et sed in iriure eos lorem sit at sadipscing clita consetetur aliquyam eu blandit gubergren sit.
Sample Output H3
Sanctus ut nulla eirmod consetetur kasd eirmod est clita. Nulla elitr dolores sed ut gubergren vulputate et ea erat. Accumsan consetetur vero sit. Eirmod et amet vero lorem sit. Eleifend invidunt stet consetetur dolor.
Lorem tempor kasd sanctus illum ut te duo et tempor diam sanctus dolor in iusto. Et ipsum at rebum eos no sea assum qui sea tempor vel at sanctus ea id et. Ea tincidunt dolore iusto vulputate clita. Et voluptua at sit volutpat ipsum ut sadipscing justo molestie elitr est justo elitr consetetur diam eos consequat. Ipsum at sadipscing dolor et dolor velit dolor eos et vel justo dolor rebum amet ipsum. Justo in tempor no.
Sample Output H4
Est justo eos justo. Elitr accusam ipsum nulla et nihil feugiat consetetur sea clita. Minim dolore minim clita iriure duo dolores delenit dolor diam suscipit clita takimata et lorem. Diam ut tempor amet lorem erat. No dignissim duo kasd amet. Dolores dolores sed et ut erat. In elitr no nam ut sed dolore esse ipsum no elitr sadipscing dolor kasd et gubergren eos.
Labore clita sed in sadipscing eos duo aliquyam invidunt kasd ad sed suscipit tempor sadipscing no tempor. Amet sadipscing est erat amet sanctus. Doming sit sit eirmod magna sea molestie dolor amet facilisis consetetur dolore ex accusam labore. Consequat nibh sadipscing odio labore consequat takimata eu dolor labore aliquyam vero at magna ipsum amet sit. Kasd est et elitr sadipscing sit erat nonumy accusam at lorem. Lorem dolor et no voluptua lorem takimata cum sed vero stet.
Sample Output H4
Dolor dolor delenit sea ipsum tation amet accusam ut est sed clita ut dolore diam mazim. Ea et magna magna dolor tempor sea et nonumy eirmod tation wisi vulputate iriure elitr sanctus. Eum amet consequat augue sit veniam et ut duo. Tempor diam odio sanctus gubergren clita dolore no ipsum lorem sanctus sit ea ullamcorper kasd rebum clita. Sanctus volutpat diam invidunt dolore ea dolor diam no ut. Justo et aliquyam erat at et dolor duo consetetur sed lobortis aliquip consequat duis dolor adipiscing eum invidunt. Ipsum sea dolore.
Qui ex dolor sea lorem diam consetetur dolor dolores sit erat eirmod te accusam nonumy tempor hendrerit. Ut et et clita dolore elitr aliquam lorem takimata lorem dolore erat velit et gubergren dolores feugiat. Duo amet autem diam dolor nobis lorem lorem sit eu nonumy vero sit nulla. Clita duo eirmod ut iusto dolor. Ipsum voluptua aliquyam nonumy et est sea amet diam. Minim veniam clita ea consectetuer erat nonumy justo nonummy. Takimata sed no kasd takimata mazim et dolore.
Sample Output H3
No iusto elitr tation sadipscing et at sea vel lorem erat assum aliquip magna erat ex. Stet autem et et eos erat facilisi molestie rebum dolores stet et sit sit zzril. Est justo est et stet justo zzril amet dolore et nonummy duo diam lorem sed ut facilisis est vulputate. Sadipscing takimata vel nonummy ut consequat stet ipsum minim voluptua aliquam ipsum rebum exerci ea sed euismod diam. Sed erat eos labore consectetuer volutpat ut duo no nonumy sed.
Amet ea tempor. Nobis dolor accusam sed quis ad et est odio. Aliquam aliquyam assum sit feugiat option eum illum. Lorem eos amet takimata erat diam lorem ea amet aliquam nonummy et duo volutpat dolor dolor. Sanctus vel duis ut ipsum erat rebum diam velit molestie aliquyam stet erat at aliquyam. Rebum soluta no commodo nonumy voluptua. Liber ea sit est consetetur sed invidunt.
Sample Output H4
Sed ea sea eos labore invidunt amet amet invidunt et hendrerit elit dolore vero duo. Eos exerci et duo elitr sadipscing vero aliquyam et consetetur ut. Hendrerit accusam illum assum vel duo dolor ipsum sit dolor at facilisis. Magna magna laoreet est diam accusam esse et gubergren iriure delenit rebum diam eu dolor et sed. Sed amet sed magna ea et sit nonumy luptatum delenit. Consetetur ut sit augue ea. Stet et eum diam et ipsum nonumy sed takimata lorem. Dolores facilisi sit erat et sanctus labore nibh vero dolor et diam lobortis. Vero sea labore luptatum erat. Qui kasd et labore est ipsum sed.
Vulputate eirmod euismod sed doming sanctus. Delenit et sanctus erat dolores tempor hendrerit et ipsum erat nonumy gubergren feugiat nonumy eirmod magna erat gubergren est. Magna dolores eos duo feugiat ea velit dolores sanctus exerci kasd sea magna et. Augue no sit kasd consectetuer ipsum duo invidunt at rebum. Eirmod clita dolor sanctus eum lorem sanctus duo lorem nihil sed tempor qui dolor eos sadipscing gubergren lobortis ipsum. Erat labore sit sadipscing eos imperdiet autem sed lorem nam aliquyam dolor ut no diam voluptua wisi amet clita.
Sample Output H4
Feugiat clita ea magna accusam eu sea ut kasd elitr rebum takimata dolore diam aliquam ut tincidunt. Amet eirmod sit ea autem duo dolor. Gubergren at est sed gubergren kasd nostrud erat dolore et magna clita sit. Lorem takimata sadipscing ipsum dolores et. Invidunt eos te tempor amet stet invidunt consequat dolores ipsum minim rebum facilisi facilisi labore aliquyam dolore.
Iriure nisl sea duo lorem amet praesent ipsum et diam et duo sit. Sadipscing vero accusam iriure sed feugiat. Laoreet sanctus et. Zzril dolor dolore elitr nam diam kasd dolores autem sed nisl sed diam nam ullamcorper eu diam lorem. Facilisis aliquyam lorem ipsum lorem dolore diam invidunt sed lorem nonumy lorem sed sed at justo dolor takimata. Dolor sit tation nobis amet lorem dignissim eum magna eos nisl dolore vulputate tempor et stet nonumy ut dolore. In at diam tempor stet consetetur vero et invidunt rebum et est eros volutpat consetetur. Ipsum ipsum eum amet at dolor duo clita.
More Sample Output H2
Sit dolores accusam ipsum aliquyam tempor accusam in invidunt vel kasd sanctus sit nulla. Est id ut. Lorem ut et in. Ut magna velit in aliquam sanctus feugait erat lorem nam sadipscing. Amet wisi et aliquyam gubergren et magna sadipscing. Sit id justo vero facilisi tempor dolores eos sed at magna takimata nibh suscipit lorem.
Elitr nulla gubergren dolore sed dolore ut sit dolor aliquyam consectetuer diam et ipsum nonumy justo lorem. Suscipit tempor et kasd commodo sea sanctus nulla lorem kasd clita duo kasd ut dolore lorem. Aliquam labore et velit clita ut autem. Dolor ipsum ad sea aliquyam elitr. Sanctus gubergren stet duis rebum erat dolore invidunt voluptua rebum et takimata aliquyam at et ipsum et sed sea. Invidunt dolore vel sadipscing magna assum labore ut ut veniam justo gubergren invidunt dolore. Vero est aliquip sed stet tempor dolor nostrud at. Sea enim ipsum consetetur est labore eu sed invidunt dolor. Labore clita elitr quod. Magna stet ea nibh sanctus nam dolore et et hendrerit tation eirmod ipsum dolor labore eos tation.
Sample Output H3
At aliquyam takimata wisi tempor suscipit et et et duis sadipscing nisl augue ut amet. Labore in no velit ipsum vel ex dolor magna mazim in. Labore duis takimata amet est dolore erat et vero erat nam et eos eos accusam nam. Nonumy ipsum accusam praesent ea diam ipsum consetetur at assum sanctus doming est. Vel duo dolor ea minim ipsum luptatum delenit vel dolor gubergren feugiat. Eirmod elitr luptatum ut consetetur dolor. Sea autem dolores nulla in sit in duo aliquyam sanctus. Sanctus justo in invidunt est ipsum nulla sanctus dolores et no duo sadipscing dolores et.
Ut tempor eos dolores commodo dolor rebum takimata luptatum sea kasd ipsum clita commodo labore nisl. Gubergren diam rebum ut eirmod ipsum vero. Aliquyam molestie ad kasd sed et ut rebum nobis dolore. Diam justo takimata ipsum sit doming labore amet diam. Lorem dolore et magna soluta vero sanctus erat at eu aliquyam dolore. Ea stet diam ea accumsan clita vero possim aliquyam dolores magna ipsum velit. Quod consequat magna ea. Diam et takimata justo elitr rebum sea est consequat magna et labore mazim sea vero nisl hendrerit delenit illum.
Sample Output H4
Elitr dolore quod justo erat nobis et laoreet dolore magna clita et. Accusam eirmod kasd stet vulputate vel dolores takimata et takimata lorem dolore aliquam sed dolore no lorem eirmod sadipscing. Assum duo labore zzril ea diam clita elitr sit et et accusam blandit. Invidunt te eum diam sea dolore dolor nibh qui in est. Lorem consetetur ut. Voluptua sadipscing sadipscing ipsum tation diam ea nonumy stet no et elitr accumsan assum voluptua. Et takimata lorem sit ea diam aliquyam wisi diam stet labore dolore. Minim sed vulputate justo.
Diam ipsum et no blandit duis. Dolor lorem velit est sit magna feugiat at et amet nonumy laoreet accumsan lorem. Doming takimata autem justo laoreet justo et duo lobortis eos enim vero lobortis ut erat lorem consequat. Dolores delenit ad hendrerit duo kasd ipsum amet esse eirmod facilisis. Magna nisl sit sadipscing amet consetetur consectetuer ea eos dolore diam. Ipsum ipsum sanctus diam amet et consetetur labore eirmod ipsum justo adipiscing wisi duo diam ut. Ut nulla illum. Sea elitr kasd lorem sanctus volutpat et vel voluptua eleifend ipsum. Velit exerci accusam magna lorem. Volutpat ad elitr consetetur kasd magna duis duis et. Ipsum consectetuer magna invidunt ea sit sit sanctus amet nonumy et.
Sample Output H4
Duis magna dolores justo stet erat nonumy qui dolore dolores no dolore dolores duo vel dolor aliquyam consequat. Dolore eum in et ea dolores diam duis sit consequat. No vel consetetur tempor tempor sanctus lorem amet ipsum wisi iusto ipsum et ea eos. Consequat lorem commodo sed delenit accusam dolor eirmod rebum et elitr lorem dolor dolor no labore justo dolores elitr. Diam option elitr lobortis kasd cum lorem magna clita elitr justo. Clita stet sadipscing ad vel accusam sed tation labore est vero dolor et adipiscing. At nonumy possim et ipsum vero zzril consectetuer ipsum sed consetetur illum kasd.
Diam dolore sanctus et tempor vulputate congue amet clita lorem vel. Ut dolore nibh amet molestie kasd kasd. Veniam dolor no et duo magna sit consetetur ut ipsum et erat nonumy. Diam magna qui lorem autem ex diam velit. Ut dolor vero facilisis diam diam et sed suscipit amet accusam no suscipit nostrud sit. Dolore clita cum et volutpat. Ipsum amet feugait lorem sanctus no aliquyam dolore nibh dignissim et.
Sample Output H3
Autem nostrud lorem no iusto dolor sadipscing. Tempor qui magna dolor sea iriure diam. Et elitr diam. Ut accusam facilisis et dolore labore quod. Sed elitr qui tempor kasd dolor commodo et vel lorem aliquyam aliquyam takimata sit consetetur voluptua invidunt. Ipsum et diam. Invidunt clita consequat vulputate est dolore labore nonumy voluptua nonumy sea. Erat ad labore lorem at est sadipscing invidunt nonumy et sea takimata autem justo gubergren nisl aliquyam justo. Eros no lorem takimata sed lobortis erat ipsum invidunt tempor diam consetetur hendrerit eos ea dolor. Sed dolores esse sadipscing eos est gubergren.
At elitr ut commodo option sea sed invidunt sit dolor diam takimata diam labore aliquyam takimata takimata lorem. Diam erat ipsum et vel aliquyam veniam eu dolore no ex. Takimata voluptua sanctus erat. Vel lorem liber et invidunt. Est rebum at elitr ea duo. Tempor et est in tempor nobis eirmod nonummy blandit accusam eirmod vel voluptua. Eu dolor eirmod. Odio lorem mazim nulla tempor stet dolor elitr vero erat. Kasd et sit eos eirmod et dolor amet ad suscipit iusto sed elitr aliquyam dolore volutpat. Kasd erat elitr et tempor kasd sed erat labore euismod erat voluptua eirmod clita nonumy diam consequat.
Sample Output H4
Tation clita tempor sanctus amet magna iusto eos labore rebum. Ipsum est amet eos rebum ipsum diam sit vero clita justo dolor est. Et vero sadipscing imperdiet autem sit nostrud velit dolor takimata dolores feugait accumsan dolor cum lorem. Consetetur et sit magna. Aliquyam et feugiat sed sit aliquyam duo vulputate hendrerit sadipscing et diam et takimata sed amet justo rebum velit. Consequat eirmod sanctus est at tation. No vero sea liber odio dolor elit sadipscing. Magna takimata lorem et aliquyam ea. Nulla voluptua dolor et dolor et dolore at ipsum nostrud ullamcorper labore elitr gubergren voluptua praesent.
Euismod no lorem aliquam facilisis erat sanctus stet sit enim. Rebum at vulputate accusam esse ipsum dolor clita et sit sea. Et invidunt no no amet sit ex lorem diam. Et rebum aliquam. Accusam vel dolores duo blandit justo ipsum magna hendrerit sanctus et sit eirmod. Congue vero nonumy ipsum duo wisi et accusam volutpat possim clita clita et ullamcorper et sed takimata aliquam et. Sed duis vel aliquip dolore eirmod consectetuer magna vel iusto diam amet eum. Et amet labore ut feugiat sit duo praesent clita. Takimata invidunt ipsum takimata gubergren congue ipsum ea aliquyam ea labore ipsum erat takimata. Erat invidunt rebum dolore ipsum amet dolores minim at justo odio takimata laoreet elitr blandit lorem.
Sample Output H4
Ipsum in nonummy ut voluptua quis labore magna at rebum. Iusto voluptua accusam kasd. Dolor luptatum est sadipscing rebum stet diam. Erat eirmod takimata sanctus amet justo et kasd at. Feugiat augue nisl consetetur gubergren ipsum dolor sadipscing at ipsum amet lorem elitr. Sit duo lobortis duo amet illum tincidunt. Qui ut sanctus. Lorem kasd rebum vel dolores et ea dolor diam ipsum ipsum ut lorem sit accusam velit nonumy tempor takimata.
Lorem gubergren vero consequat clita kasd vulputate lorem eum consetetur molestie eirmod accusam amet aliquyam aliquyam eos invidunt. Iusto consetetur te ipsum odio et. Amet rebum ut sit luptatum sed magna elitr dolore consequat ut et vero no accumsan consetetur sed. Consetetur tempor illum labore sed nostrud adipiscing ut sed diam sit aliquyam clita et sit lorem kasd dolore. Amet dolor te. Sed vulputate ipsum eu ipsum illum et et amet et amet amet sit clita. Sanctus consetetur aliquyam ea sit augue elitr dolor lorem. Dolor at autem stet voluptua diam. Illum nulla est vel sadipscing magna ea lorem. Accusam labore sit dolores autem est tempor doming accusam mazim esse dolore te vero tempor ut in. Sit vero eos et ullamcorper magna sanctus kasd.